OPINIONISTA: The End of Truth: Deepfaking and Artificial Intelligence to grease the wheels of politics

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OPINIONISTA: The End of Truth: Deepfaking and Artificial Intelligence to grease the wheels of politics By Steven Boykey Sidley

. Check it out. Every face you see was constructed by artificial intelligence, and they are indistinguishable from real faces. In fact, what are you seeing is one of the last bastions of truth creepily disassembled.

It is all a matter of incentives, and the largest of those incentives dangles in front of large-stake politics, especially those for whom good-old precepts of honesty are quaint concepts. Take the worst of them – Putin, Duterte, Trump, Orban, Maduro, Assad – does one for a moment think that, if presented with a possibility of mortally wounding an opponent, they wouldn’t take it? The rewards could be spectacular, the risks are almost negligible.

Does one doubt that deepfaking will be employed in the service of the useful political lie in South Africa? And as the technology advances, will it not simply become the Orwellian world of metatruths to grease the wheels of power-seeking?

 

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